Credentials Management Affecting curl package, versions <7.51.0-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN12-CURL-1544183
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 1 Aug 2018
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2016-8616 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 curl to version 7.51.0-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream curl package and not the curl package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
A flaw was found in curl before version 7.51.0 When re-using a connection, curl was doing case insensitive comparisons of user name and password with the existing connections. This means that if an unused connection with proper credentials exists for a protocol that has connection-scoped credentials, an attacker can cause that connection to be reused if s/he knows the case-insensitive version of the correct password.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8616
- https://curl.haxx.se/CVE-2016-8616.patch
- https://curl.haxx.se/docs/adv_20161102B.html
- https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-21
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8616
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-47
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8616
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3558
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94094
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037192
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-8616